The Simple Way to Grow Your Own Organic Food

by on January 23, 2011

The idea of eating organic food is a trend that has been growing. But buying organic food, or food that is claimed to be organic, can be quite costly. And many times this food is not any better than the lower cost conventionally produced foods. In order to get food that is 100% organic and fresh, you may have to grow it yourself. For many people, this may seem impractical. But with aquaponics, you might be surprised at how easy it can be to grow your own food.

This is not so much a new type of farming, as one that is just recently becoming popular. It is simple, low cost, and can be very productive. The components involved are low cost and the labor involved is very low compared to traditional farming. There is no need for fertile land, since nothing will be grown in the ground. And it doesn’t require much space.

With traditional gardening much of the time and expense is spent on tilling the land, conditioning and fertilizing the soil, pulling or spraying for weeds and battling pests, like gophers. With aquaponics, none of that applies. Instead of being at mercy of nature, you create a simple system that mimics nature, but is under your control.

In an aquaponics farm, you grow plants in a grow bed, similar to the way you would with hydroponics. But instead of giving your plants chemical fertilizer, you circulate water from a fish tank into the grow beds. The fish water has the fish wastes, which happen to be high in the nutrients that plants need. The plants use these nutrients and clean the water in the process. This benefits fish by giving them clean water.

This gives you organically grown vegetables, since there are no chemical fertilizers added. It also solves the problem with aquaculture and disposing of the fish waste. Instead of releasing them in to the environment, the plants are able to use them as valuable nutrients. And you get to have fresh organically grown fish.

Aquaponics systems can be compact and take up little space. And unlike a traditional garden, they can be easily assembled and re-assembled. So if you move to a different home, you can take it with you. It can be placed outdoors, if your climate permits, or in a greenhouse or even indoors if you can get enough light. If you don’t have enough light, grow lights are an option, although they will increase costs.

If you are really serious about eating healthy organic food, growing your own food is the way to be sure you are getting the most nutritious and organic food there is. With aquaponics this can be practical, even for those with busy lives and not a lot of space.

Before you set up your aquaponics garden, you should read this aquaponics how to guide. It will show you how to build a simple low cost system and teach you everything you need to grow your own food.

Become an aquaponics expert and set up your own system with this aquaponics how to guide.http://TilapiaFarming.orgGrow Your Own Organic Food
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Mary January 25, 2011 at 4:25 pm

Grow your own organic food with Certified Organic vegetable and herb plants from Windcrest Farm – http://www.WindcrestOrganics.com.

Lawrence Acrey February 3, 2011 at 6:41 pm

Took me time to read all the comments, but I really enjoyed the article. It proved to be Very helpful to me and I am sure to all the commenters here! It’s always nice when you can not only be informed, but also entertained! I’m sure you had fun writing this article.

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